Summary

Title:Maya Plugin Crashes When Loaded
Category:Crash/Critical
Status:Confirmed
Posted By:liepins444 ( Adam Liepins )
Date Created:14 September 2018

Problem

Description:

Hi,

We've recently purchased Ornatrix for Maya and we are running into a problem.

I’m having an issue getting a plugin to load properly in Maya 2017 or Maya 2018.

After installation, I launch Maya and open the plugin manager. You can see the Ornatrix plugin section, but when you click on load, I get the following error:

// Error: file C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 290: Unable to dynamically load : C:/Program Files/Ephere/Ornatrix for Maya/2018/Ornatrix.mll
// Error: file C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2018/scripts/others/pluginWin.mel line 290: (Ornatrix) //

There’s a significant chance Maya will crash shortly after this pops up.

From what I've read, the plugin should prompt for license registration if it loads properly.

What I’ve tried:
I reinstalled VC 2015 redistributable
I deleted my Maya prefs for both 2017 and 2018, and replaced them with defaults.
And I even tried an old fashion restart.

We'd like to get started using Ornatrix as soon as possible.

Thank you for your time in resolving this problem.

Best,

Adam

Steps to Reproduce:

-Run Automatic Installation as described in the documentation.

-Load the plugin in Maya from the plugin manager window.

-Recieve error and promptly crash.

Here is my Install Log.


Attached Files:

>Install.log (1753516 bytes),

Hello,

We are aware of this issue, is a high priority and the team is working to find the cause of the problem. Thank you for the log file, that will be useful. I will keep you posted and sorry for the inconvenience.

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hi Adam,

Which Operating System do you use? Also did you try in other Maya versions than 201/2018 (just to know if it affects all of them)?

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

We use Windows 7.

We also have not tried in earlier versions of Maya, only Maya 2017/2018.

I don't have an eariler version installed atm.

Thank you, we are investigating

Marsel Khadiyev (Software Developer, EPHERE Inc.)

I saw in this post to try the latest nightly build:

https://ephere.com/plugins/autodesk/maya/ornatrix/defect_8323.html

And it worked for us! Thank you!

We have found that Maya will crash if Maya Animation settings are set to Parallel when Ornatrix is loaded in the scene.   DG mode is stable. 

Hi Matt,

What version of Maya? 

Jeordanis Figuereo (Product Designer. EPHERE Inc.)

Hi, 

I have also found that setting the evaluation mode to DG seems to fix a bunch of problems I've been having with the demo version (hair guides only sometimes following animation, some python errors, tons of crashes). Maya 2020.2, macOS 10.15.5. 

Please let me know if there is any diagnostic information I should post! 

Sincerely, 

Yoni